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Re: Dual Processors?

It works on a dual socket board. I've run BT5r2 on my dual Athlon MP machine (Tyan Tiger MP S2460 mobo, 2X 1.2GHz Athlon MP, 1GB RAM - since upgraded to 2GB), however just launching Metasploit brought it to it's knees. Most other tools on it worked just fine though.

A particular app would need to be specifically written to take advantage of SMP. For the most part, IIRC, the kernel will simply balance the application load between the processors in the same way it does on a single socket/multi-core processor.

Re: Dual Processors?

Originally Posted by parsec

It works on a dual socket board. I've run BT5r2 on my dual Athlon MP machine (Tyan Tiger MP S2460 mobo, 2X 1.2GHz Athlon MP, 1GB RAM - since upgraded to 2GB), however just launching Metasploit brought it to it's knees. Most other tools on it worked just fine though.

A particular app would need to be specifically written to take advantage of SMP. For the most part, IIRC, the kernel will simply balance the application load between the processors in the same way it does on a single socket/multi-core processor.

Yes, I agree, you can have even 4 sockets and 4 cpus it will only use one...and even more, use the cores inside, but not parallel processing...Need SMP.

But again, going back to the Original question as to Dual processors running BT5 as such, I do not think so, running all its cores inside?.Probably yes...